The love of a missionary is great

Hi family!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope you have started off this new year with lots of good ideas and goals that you are ready to meet. As it says in our training manual for missionaries, Preach My Gospel, "Goals reflect the desires of our hearts and our vision of what we can accomplish. Through goals and plans, our hopes are transformed into action." I invite you to think about what your desires are, and how in this new year you can work to reach your goals.

I just have a short little thing to share today. Yesterday was fast and testimony meeting at church, my last one in Peru. I felt the Spirit very strongly and I fasted and prayed, asking the Lord to help me and the people I teach and visit here. I, along with my companion, was able to share my testimony yesterday, and when I sat down in my chair, I felt like I needed to write a little bit about all of what I was feeling. And this is what I wrote: 

"I shared my testimony in my ward for the last time today. I felt so much as I stood in front of those people, telling them about the things that I know to be true. I realized that most of them probably don´t know much about me - for most of them, I´m just another one of the missionaries that´s passed through the ward. The image of my face will blur with that of all the others; my last name will be poorly-pronounced for the next few months and forgotten in a few years. They don´t know me, but I know them. My companion and I have spent hours praying for them and the people they love; asking the Lord to make their burdens lighter, to help them keep the faith when times get hard, and that we might be able to help them in some small way. The love of a missionary is great; it´s impossible to explain all of what a young man or woman feels as a set-apart servant of God. Our knees are calloused and well-accustomed to long conversations on the floor, and our voices are well-known by our Father. We don´t need the people to know who we are; we need them to know their Savior."

That´s basically what I feel today. I just want you to know that I love you and I´m always praying for you. Thank you for your love and support! Have a wonderful week, and remember these words that the Lord says to us: "Be patient in afflictions, for thou shalt have many; but endure them, for, lo, I am with thee, even unto the end of they days." I know that this is true, for each and every one of us.

With all of my love,

Hermana Scott